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Monday, July 24, 2017

Tom Beau (my poem for Tom Raworth along with others' in Blackbox Manifold) and links to my other tributes

Blackbox Manifold has another fine issue out, number 18, this time with a special section of poems and prose to the memory of Tom Raworth; see the list of contributors below. I haven't read it all yet. But it's here.

Earlier this year, I posted three pieces for Tom and linked to some even earlier pieces.

I have written critically
of Tom's work a great deal but here's
a relaxed take on his extraordinary 14 liners.

But read a decidedly unrelaxed 'On Tom Raworth: The Speed of Writing and the
Poetics of What is to One Side' here.

And see my 1999 poem for
him from Twentieth Century Blues, posted I.M. here.

But there's more (these posts and links were put of a tribute I put together here on Pages some months ago). How about a passage from my abandoned novel Thelma here
which features Tom Raworth as a character? Thelma was my Scouse version of Breton's Nadja!